Radio host who connected Roger Stone to WikiLeaks subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee

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Radio host Randy Credico was the intermediary between
Roger Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the
2016 election, Stone told the House Intelligence Committee
recently.

Stone has long denied having any direct contact with
Assange, saying that he had been getting his information from a
mutual friend.

Credico has been subpoenaed by the House Intelligence
Committee.

Randy Credico, a radio host believed to be the intermediary
between President Donald Trump's longtime confidante Roger Stone
and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was subpoenaed by the House
Intelligence Committee on Tuesday after he declined to be
interviewed voluntarily.

The subpoena is believed to be related to his communications with
both Assange and Stone, whose tweets in the weeks before the
election raised questions about
whether he knew in advance that emails from Hillary Clinton's
campaign chairman, John Podesta, would be imminently published by
WikiLeaks.

“Wednesday @HillaryClinton is done," Stone tweeted on October 1.

"I have total confidence that @wikileaks and my hero Julian
Assange will educate the American people soon #LockHerUp," he
tweeted two days later.

Stone has long denied having any direct contact with
Assange, saying that he had been getting his information from a
mutual friend.

His longtime friend Michael Caputo, who briefly advised the
Trump campaign, said that Stone and Credico "were friends and had
a big falling out in 2014." It is unclear how or why they
reconnected in 2016, when they apparently discussed
Assange.

"I never heard they reconciled," Caputo said. "I didn’t
even know Roger called in to Credico’s radio show. But they’ve
run hot and cold for years, so it’s no shocker."

Stone said he and Credico had been friends since 2002, and
that he had asked Credico to confirm whether Assange was telling
the truth when he said in June that WikiLeaks had "upcoming leaks
in relation to Hillary Clinton … We have emails pending
publication, that is correct."

Both Stone and Assange have been guests on Credico's show, but
Credico told NY1 in a recent interview that he was "not at
liberty courtesy of my counsel to talk about Roger Stone or to
talk about WikiLeaks or to talk about Julian Assange."

"I am fighting for a jourmalist here and I am willing to go
to jail for that," Credico said, referring to Assange.

Credico has characterized the Russia investigation as
"bogus," and told radio host Jimmy Dore on Tuesday
that he has "nothing to say" to the House Intelligence
Committee.

He claimed that he had visited Assange in London, where he
has sought asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy, "twice in the last
two weeks."

Assange tweeted about Credico on Wednesday: "Who is
satirist @credico2016
who has been subpoenaed by the U.S. House intelligence committee
after interviewing me?" he wrote, along with a link to a
documentary about Credico's life.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo has characterized WikiLeaks as a
"hostile intelligence service," and US intelligence agencies
concluded in January that the self-described radical transparency
organization had aided Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016
election by publishing emails stolen from the Democratic National
Committee and John Podesta.

Stone told Business Insider earlier this year that he
"had no contacts or communications with the Russian State,
Russian Intelligence or anyone fronting for them or acting as
intermediaries for them. None. Nada. Zilch. I am not in touch
with any Russians. don't have a Russian girlfriend, don't like
Russian dressing and have stopped drinking Russian
Vodka."

Credico, for his part, told Dore that he thinks the US
intelligence community "wants to contain" Assange. He said he
will let the House Intelligence Committee have the "files"
related to his interviews with Assange, who has been on his show
"four times."

"But anything I've said behind closed doors with [Assange]
or anybody else on my radio show, uh, I have nothing to say to
them," said Credico, who has launched a petition calling on
Congress to limit the committee's ability to target "people for
political purposes."

"I'm not going to dignify or legitimize or dignify this
witch hunt," he added. "Please visit me in jail."